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Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

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GABMENT BUCKLE.

APPLIGATION FILED Nov. 13, 1908,

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To all whom tt may concern.'

Be it known that I, MAX RUBIN, a citizen ofthe United States, and resident kof the city of New York, b county of Kings and State of New York, have Specification of Letters Patent. Application led November 13, 1908.

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Patented Aug. 24, 1909. serai nol 462,882.

normal 'tension contact at their free ends, and can be spread under the clamping strain produced by 'the shoulder upon the web rest- Alng on said bottom member. The buckle can also be made with the bottom piece of invented certain new and useful lmproveh f 1s simple in construction, strong, andabsolutely reliable in act1on and prevents slipping of the webbing when the buckle is closed, both when the strain on the webbing is in a direction parallel with, or approximately parallel with the plane of the buckle, as well as when the strain is in a plane transversely to the buckle or on'an angle to the buckle, all without cutting, perforating, or in any other way injuring or damaging the webbing.

In the accompanying drawings in which like numerals of reference indicate like parts in allof the figures, Figure l'is a face 'view of one'construction of my 1mproved garment buckle, opened. Fig. 2 is a vertical central transverse sectional view through thesame, om an enlarged scale, showing the manner of applying the buckle tothe webbing and .the manner of holding the webbing when the buckle is closed. v Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view of a slightly modified construction of the buckle, the webbing being in place and the buckle opened. Fig. 4 is a similar view of these same parts, the buckle being closed, A Fig. 5 is a face view of the blank for making the clamping lever of my improved buckle. 1

My improved buckle is composed of two parts, one part being the frame and the other part being the web ing clamping lever pivoted to the frame, this lever bein provided on its inner face with a longitudine shoulder, which, when the web clamping lever is swung down, presses the web resting upon the bottom member of the frame, upon this bottom member and thereby securely 'clamping the webbing between the shoulder and the bottoni member of the frame. To increase this clamping action when the web clamping lever is swung down, the bottom member of the frame may be formed of yielding spring arms which under t e rame made continuous and rigid.

The web clamping lever 1 which is provided, preferably at its center with the projecting 'linger 2, is preferably struck up from a sheet metal blank shown in Fig. 5. This lank 3 is provided with projecting endparts 4 which `form the endcf the main body of 'the lever and ad'acent to these parts 4 the ends of the blan are recessed as at 5, the part of the metal between r5 and 5 being curved as shown in the drawings when the blank is bent upon itself. Beneath the arts 5 5, there is a lug 6 on each end, eac lug being provided With a recess 7. Beneath the liig there is a tongue 8 which is bent over on the dotted line to form the clam ino' face of a shoulder. The metal of the biiinl is doubled over on itself and curved between the points 5 5 as stated, and then the end Alugs 6 6 are bent rectangularly so that their outer edges will now rest 'against the inner surface of the mainbody portion of the clamping lever. The recesses 7'in the lugs 6 form openings for receiving the pivots of the web holding frame 12 which is provided withan opening 18 through which the web can be passed, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the holding frame 12 is formed of bent wire which passes through the holes formed by the notches 7 in the ends of the shoulderrpart and extends lengthwise through the shoulder part and the free ends of the Wire forming the frame butt at the center of the frame as shown in Fig 1 and are curved at 15, wherebythe bottom cross piece of the web hol ing frame is made yielding so that it can give downward in the direction of the plane of the buckle and also can give laterally. As shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the body 14 ofthe frame is formed of a solid ieee of metal and the pivots 25 project t rough the holes formed by the notches 7.

The webbing 16 is passed through the opening 13 of the web holding frame from the rear, the front forming a loop 17 which is stitched by stitches 18 for the purpose of attaching and holdingfthe frame to the webbing. The running end of the webbing, that is to say, the free end which is to be secured in place, after the webbing has been set at the pretion, shown,

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the closed positions, the shoulder also swings down edge or corner iirst comes in contact with that part 19 of the webbing that extends over loop 17 and as the locking lever is swung down the corner of the shoulder gradually presses this part 19 of the webbing downward and upon the webbing resting upon the bottom cross piece of the frame, and when the clamping lever is pressed downward flat upon that part of the webl art 19, at thc front, the shoulder on the c amping lever is in complete contactwith theweb part 19 and presses this part 19 upon the looped part 17 and 'in turn presses this part 17 upon the bottom cross piece of the frame, whereby the running part 19 ol' the webbing is clamped lirmly and securely and in such a manner that it cannot ield in any direction, between the shou der and the bottom part of the frame.

To insure greater clamping action and to permit of using the buckle with webs of greater variations in thickness, the bottom of the frame is made to form two spring arms so that, as the locking lever is swung down and the shoulder of the clam ing lever is pressed upon the webbing, t is .lower member'of the frame can give more or less. When the angle of the shoulder begins to and its outer e and over the oop part 17 in said .part of the separated a greater or less distance, but as the locking lever 1s swung down completely' so that the shoulder rests upon the web part 19 the spring arms of the frame contract vslightly under their spring tension and'thus the running v assist materially in clamping artof the webbing between and the bottom pJart'oi the frame.

Having descri ed my invention what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. 1n a garment buckle, the combination with a web holding frame, of a clamping lever pivotally mounted on the frame, said clam ing lever being bent up from sheet meta to have a longitudinal flat web clamping shoulder, formed by bending the bottom sheet metal of the lever laterally, then upward and then inward to the inner face of the lever, substantially'as set forth.

2. ln a garment buckle, the combination with a web holding frame, of a clamping lever on the same, said clamping lever being bent up from sheet metal to have a longitu dinal web clamping bent portion formed by bending the bottom part oi the metal lever laterally, then upward and then inward to and against the inner face of the lever, said bent portion having apertured ends formed of sheet metal lugs bent from the ends o the aidhupwardly bent part, substantially as set ort Signed this 11th day of November A; D. 1908.

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Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, FRANK E. RAFFMAN. 

